termaxima
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- Comment on Major Bitcoin mining firm pivoting to AI, plans to fully abandon crypto mining by 2027 as miners convert to AI en masse — Bitfarm to leverage 341 megawatt capacity for AI following $46 million Q3 loss 2 days ago:
Bitcoin has at best 5 years left until quantum computers just destroy the cryptography they use, so they are right to look for an escape.
I just wish they realized how futile this all is.
- Comment on flock + ring = ice 4 days ago:
That’s annoying (or at least, takes some work) to set up, and more expensive.
Out of order cameras are basically (sometimes literally) free, need no wiring work, and don’t “accidentally” record any embarrassing / private moments you then have to delete !
- Comment on flock + ring = ice 4 days ago:
Hot take : almost no one actually needs security cameras in their home.
For the very few who do, visible fake cameras do 95% of the job of real cameras with none of the drawbacks.
- Comment on [NSFW] ysk: you can restore your foreskin 5 days ago:
Of all the organs I cannot fathom why this is the one we decided we should remove bits of. Imagine if we had instead made a ritual of removing earlobes, no one would give a fuck.
- Comment on Data hoarders and encryption enthusiasts are the digital equivalent to doomsday preppers 5 days ago:
Problem is that doomsday keeps happening, repeatedly, but at a tiny scale. Games, movies, shows, albums, all keep disappearing…
- Comment on If we ever find a planet with life in it, we could never set foot on it, because the interaction of the two biologies can have unpredictable consequences 5 days ago:
Isn’t it also possible that their biology would be different enough that there would be basically no interaction ? 🤷🏻♀
I don’t think we have any micro-organisms that would be particularly dangerous to silicon-based life, for example, if we did I’d expect it would be a problem already for our computers and everything made of glass ?
- Comment on German court: ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics 5 days ago:
I have been thinking of adding a license clause to everything I make (code especially) that makes any AI trained on it my sole exclusive property, but I don’t know how defensible that would be in court ?
Or an other sort of trap clause. But again, I don’t know how to word it.
I am not a lawyer, not even slightly…
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 5 days ago:
We shouldn’t eat them. I don’t want prion disease.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 6 days ago:
As someone who works in assembler a lot, RISC-V is probably my favorite.
If anyone knows a useful open source project where people like me can contribute to this future happening, please do respond to this comment !
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 6 days ago:
Not without a camera it can’t
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 6 days ago:
Real glad I can soon ditch the DualSense Edge and its only half-functional gimmicks !
I will miss the adjustable triggers, but I will NOT miss the randomly incorrect button mappings, and “extra buttons” that get fucked up if you ever connect it to an actual PS5
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 6 days ago:
So you could sell it now !
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 6 days ago:
Yes but which index ? The headset alone is 540€, but the full VR Kit is 1080€
Dont get me wrong, I’m still going TK buy it if IR costs 1080€, but I will be annoyed, and very sad for all the kids who will still have to sell their soul to Meta for a while…
I really hope it’s ~500€
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 6 days ago:
If Valve went DRM free like GOG, I would have no reason to ever buy games anywhere else
(apart from exclusives, which should be illegal IMO)
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 6 days ago:
That is a bit of a shame, I was excited to see the Steam Frame controllers simply use AA batteries.
I wish more things used those, or maybe some new standard with more energy density. Swapping batteries immediately is one thing I miss from the Wii days…
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 6 days ago:
That is nice, but Hades II is hardly my idea of a hard benchmark to clear. Looks like a fun game, though !
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 6 days ago:
As homophobic as this indeed is, it’s also from 2011. As a pansexual trans woman, I’m pretty sure I might have sais some very transphobic/homophobic stuff in 2011 as well, thankfully I was not posting it online.
I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, but I respect that you may not be inclined to do that. I have possibly too much faith in humanity.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 1 week ago:
Be prepared for Square Enix games to fail even EA’s QA standards in the near future 😅
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 1 week ago:
We could have made work optional some time during the last century. The only reason we haven’t yet is people like him.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 1 week ago:
Tax shareholders 100%. No more shareholders.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 1 week ago:
Also WHY would we want robots to do the work for us ? The problem is generally the working conditions, not the mere fact people have to do it.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 1 week ago:
I would have personally approved of a trillion dollar project to make sure this plan DOES NOT happen.
But he’s going to steal all the money anyway, and use it to escape to Mars, only to die on the launch pad when the rocket predictably explodes…
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 2 weeks ago:
Nowadays I’m even starting to find it annoying on a browser with adblock, but without NoScript ! Quite a bit of nonsense disappears when you take the few seconds to only enable the scripts a page actually needs
- Comment on The Last Truly Custom Nintendo: A 3DS Retrospective 2 weeks ago:
Just looked it up, really disappointed it doesn’t do the 3D part. (yes, I’m part of the few people who always had it on and set to max depth)
- Comment on The Last Truly Custom Nintendo: A 3DS Retrospective 2 weeks ago:
I cannot describe how disappointed I was in the switch when it came out, and the situation isn’t much better now. It took one huge step forwards, yes, bus also ditched a ton of really good features :
- No cameras !?
- No microphone !?
- No analog triggers
- No 3D display
- No stylus support
- No Streetpass
- No personality (fun apps, menu music, themes…)
Even the Motion controls, which are still a thing, do not feature any IR reference point, making the Wii still the best implementation of motion aim outside of VR.
The games are great, but these days I personally play the Wii U and 3DS more often, because unlike the switch these platforms still offer some experiences that are just not possible elsewhere.
In fact, the Wii U and 3DS are currently the only consoles I would recommend actually possessing physically. Wii U emulation is really annoying (though Steam Deck can get there, with a cable in the way), and good luck finding anything for the 3DS that does the 3D part any better than a New 3DS XL.
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 2 weeks ago:
We really need to teach everyone to use ad blockers. Ads have not existed on “my” internet since the 2000s…
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 weeks ago:
I would have thought that, as I have played closer to 8 hours, and I am bored with it 😂 glad it’s still fun for you though 😊
- Comment on Is the Atari Jaguar worth playing in 2025 !? 2 weeks ago:
It has 21 titles on retroachievements, so those are probably worth emulating at least ?
Having achievements usually means there’s people dedicated enough to care, especially on such an otherwise unpopular system. At least I would try those titles first, emulated or not.
- Comment on From what I've seen, public transit is either expensive and terrible or cheap and good. 2 weeks ago:
Or free and world-leading
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 3 weeks ago:
As a vegan, this has been my main meal because I’m pretty lazy (usually wrapped in a tortilla with guacamole, but I also eat it plain)
The gas issues are only a problem for a few days / weeks until your gut biome adjusts !